If they're not fair game, why do the liberals attack conservative justices and FoxNews? Even Obama struck at the Court. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/obamas-unsettling-attack-on-the-supreme-court/2012/04/02/gIQA4BXYrS_blog.html?utm_term=.645ad4aec527They're not 'fair game', and your argument simply capitulates to the notion that everything really is a matter of opinion. — Wayfarer
He charged Trump with devising a conscious strategy of lies denigrating key public institutions, from the mainstream media to judges and even the electoral process itself, so that he could present himself as the sole savior of the nation. The aim was to put out the message that “the only person in America who stands for the American people, the only person in America who is telling the truth, the only person in America who gets it right is the president of the United States, Donald Trump”.
You can Google "bias at cbo" as well as I can for historical claims of bias by both parties.And where's the evidence of bias in the CBO? — Baden
Of course, but he didn't create this problem. He simply identified it and exploited it. Both sides have fostered an us versus them attitude, and so absolute skepticism of criticism has been the result.You've presumably noticed that tendency? — Baden
I was enjoying this conversation until I got to Colbert being quoted as authority, at which point I couldnt take it seriously any more. — ernestm
I think Trump genuinely believes the things he says, some of which may not in fact be true — Thorongil
He speaks untruth he genuinely believes in. — Thorongil
People now use words to describe whatever they decide they mean, accepting no authority over their own opinion. It has got so bad, it is impossible to communicate any more, ... — ernestm
The liberals, not the right, have denigrated the electoral process itself by openly proclaiming Trump's election invalid. — Hanover
anti-Enlightenment thinking is... back in the form of Donald Trump, racial separatists and the world’s other populist ethnic nationalist movements.
Today’s anti-Enlightenment movements don’t think truth is to be found through skeptical inquiry and debate. They think wisdom and virtue are found in the instincts of the plain people, deep in the mystical core of the nation’s or race’s group consciousness.
Today’s anti-Enlightenment movements believe less in calm persuasion and evidence-based inquiry than in purity of will. They try to win debates through blunt force and silencing unacceptable speech.
“Let it be a disaster, because we can blame that on the Dems,” Trump told governors two weeks ago, summing up a thought he’s expressed repeatedly.
I'll just quickly classify as "roughly nonsense" — jorndoe
New presidents typically grow into the job, but Trump remains a bully and a charlatan. In my career, I’ve never known a national politician as mendacious, ill informed, bombastic and dangerous as Trump. His tweets are as immature as ever, and The Washington Post calculates that he has issued 452 false or misleading claims since assuming office, churning them out at a rate of more than one every six hours around the clock (no wonder he seems so busy!) — Nicholas Kristof
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